No 14141, Friday 05 Apr 2024, Arden

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ACROSS

9   Tend to accept defeat, in short shut down (7) CLOSURE {C{LOSs}URE}

10 I had come back with a no nonsensical statesman from the US (7) IDAHOAN {I}{HAD<=}{A+NO}*

11 Home before long for a beginning (7) INFANCY {IN}{FANCY}

12 Do stop, drain part of milk (7) LACTOSE {L{ACT}OSE}

13 A place of worship once, later on below average (9) PARTHENON {THEN}{ON}<=>{PAR}

15 Orderly coverage for Republican President in the past (5) PERON {PE{R}ON}

16 Hotel bar, appropriate place to review part of the story (7) PARABLE [T<=]

19 With some money allow fresh resumption (7) RENEWAL {RE{NEW}AL}

20 In fact, a million literary works are there in this language (5) TAMIL [T]

21 Imagine a model wearing an exotic bonnet (5,4) FANCY THAT {T} in {FANCY}{HAT}

25 Bird gets set amount including interest (7) TINAMOU {T{I}NAMOU*}

26 Choice, encountered in fall (7) PLUMMET {PLUM}{MET}

28 Give back 80% immediately outside the French city (7) AVIGNON {GIVe<=} in {ANON} 80% Vor 75%?

29 Hermaphrodite's story, direction follows (7) EPICENE {EPIC}{ENE}

DOWN

1   Save and invest millions in share (6) SCRIMP {SCRI{M}P}

2   Initial current supply is safe (6) COFFER {Cu...t}{OFFER}

3   Bolt had one loss (4) RUIN {RU{1}N}

4   Know any happy countryman? (6) KENYAN {KEN}{ANY*}

5   Refuse to be kept inside (3,5) BIN LINER [CD]

6   Cheap stuff for sale, heard separately perhaps (10) CATCHPENNY {Hear/CATCH }{d/PENNY}

7   Cat fight to grab gold, that's after midnight today (8) TOMORROW {TOM}{ROW} over {OR}

8   Local part of a cell acquired by a chip maker (8) INTERNAL {INTE{RNA}L}

14 Hit men managed to get bail somehow in this outfit (10) HABILIMENT {HIT+MEN}* over {BAIL}*

16 Fits briefly, ring around IITM compound (5,3) PETIT MAL {PE{IITM*}AL} Error in fodder

17 Dreamy, also probably asrtonomical (8) ROMANTIC (romantic+also=astronomical) [CA]

18 Left exposed next to flowing sewage (8) EFFLUENT {lEFt}{FLUENT}

22 Poles drink beer outside park in this city (6) NAPLES {N}{A{P}LE}{S}

23 Play a bowler, oddly Miller is included (6) HAMLET {HA{MiLlEt}T}

24 Rope - time to undo there (6) TETHER {T}{THERE*}

27 Come together briefly as one (4) UNIT UNITe

Reference List

Home = IN, Republican = R, Model = T, Interest = I, Millions = M, D = Penny, Know = KEN, Gold = OR, Park = P, Time = T